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- .name
- mkisofs
- .fullname
- mkisofs
- .aminet-dir
- disk/cdrom
- .type
- Disk Tool
- .short
- Simple ISO-9660 pre-mastering utility.
- .description
- A pre-mastering program to generate an ISO-9660 filesystem. It takes
- a snapshot of a given directory tree, and generates a binary image
- which will correspond to an ISO-9660 filesystem when written to a
- block device.
-
- It is also capable of generating the System Use Sharing Protocol
- records specified by the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol. This is
- used to further describe the files in the ISO-9660 filesystem to a
- unix host, and provides information such as longer filenames, uid/gid,
- posix permissions, and block and character devices.
-
- Each file written to the ISO-9660 filesystem must have a filename in
- the 8.3 format (8 characters, period, 3 characters, all upper case),
- even if Rock Ridge is in use. This filename is used on systems that
- are not able to make use of the Rock Ridge extensions (such as
- MS-DOS), and each filename in each directory must be different from
- the other filenames in the same directory.
-
- mkisofs generally tries to form correct names by forcing the unix
- filename to upper case and truncating as required, but often times
- this yields unsatisfactory results when there are cases where the
- truncated names are not all unique. mkisofs assigns weightings to
- each filename, and if two names that are otherwise the same are found
- the name with the lower priority is renamed to have a 3 digit number
- as an extension (where the number is guaranteed to be unique). An
- example of this would be the files foo.bar and foo.bar.~1~ - the file
- foo.bar.~1~ would be written as FOO.000;1 and the file foo.bar would
- be written as FOO.BAR;1. "path" is the path of the directory tree to
- be copied into the ISO-9660 filesystem.
-
- (AmigaDOS Note: The AmigaDOS port relaxes the above restrictions to
- produce ISO-9660 level 2 compatible ISO images)
- .version
- 1.00.7
- .date
- 1994.12.18
- .author
- Eric Youngdale
- Frank Munkert
- .distribution
- GNU Public License
- .email
- ericy@gnu.ai.mit.edu
- ln_fmu@pki-nbg.philips.de
- .source
- Includes full source in C.
- .docs
- mkisofs.guide
- README-Amiga
- .described-by
- Fred Fish (fnf@amigalib.com)
-